Noto Color Emoji font has incorrect colors

Not sure if this is a Manjaro or KDE issue so please point the right direction if this is in the wrong place.

My Noto Color Emoji font has symbols what are yellow/orange.

Specifically, we’re using #23E9. On every other system this symbol is blue.
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What’s going on here?

edit: Slight oddity. We’re also using #2705 which is showing with a green coloring across the board, so it’s not some general color replacement for theming?

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… why would you even care? It’s an emoji … :wink:

Because we’re using the emojis as a status indicator in an html field in Azure Devops. We decided on green = good, red = bad, blue = skipped. I’m seeing yellow = skipped which triggers my “arghh, something’s broken” instinct.

I’m also partly curious. Is this part of the font, part of the distro config, KDE config? Is it configurable?

probably the local font, but:
I don’t know.

But you seem to presume that this:
#23E9

is always and everywhere supposed to be rendered in orange.

I wouldn’t be so sure - check your presumption?

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Looks like in Noto it’s just orange.

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@Scattershot
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That’s a great use case. You might like me.

I have a few emojis. I tried them all and ended up with two.

pacman -Q | grep emoji
haskell-emojis 0.1.4-11
noto-color-emoji-fontconfig 1.0.0-2
noto-fonts-emoji 1:2.047-1
noto-fonts-emoji-blob 1:15.0-1
ttf-twemoji-color 15.1.0-1
unicode-emoji 15.1-1

I sometimes use emojis with different designs. I do this in wezterm (lua).
Screenshot from 2025-04-11 06-41-34

The following may be off the mark.

First of all, I don’t think the shades are defined in detail.

For example, even if it’s a definition of a mountain, it doesn’t define the degree of snow cover. There are mountains with autumn leaves, mountains with coniferous forests, mountains with broadleaf forests, and so on.

When I look at the color of human skin, you get a picture that looks like an alien or human form. I don’t know the intention of the person who provided it, but it’s probably not a creature on Earth. I feel a strong sense of discomfort, but that’s another issue.